Hi Ivan. Thanks for this lesson,very interresting. I am thinking about buying a Marshall 50W amp (a Vintage Modern 2266C) but I've been told that it's too much for bedroom practicing. I am now playing with a 75W Line6 Spider 3 and never have the volume above 2/10 or 3/10. Since it is a solid-state amp, playing with a low volume doesn't have an impact on the quality, but with a 50W Marshal amp like yours, is it still possible to get a good tone at a reasonable volume?

By the way, I ordered a Line 6 Toneport just 30 seconds before I saw this video, I can't wait to see your next tutorial!

Hi Ivan. Thanks for this lesson,very interresting. I am thinking about buying a Marshall 50W amp (a Vintage Modern 2266C) but I've been told that it's too much for bedroom practicing. I am now playing with a 75W Line6 Spider 3 and never have the volume above 2/10 or 3/10. Since it is a solid-state amp, playing with a low volume doesn't have an impact on the quality, but with a 50W Marshal amp like yours, is it still possible to get a good tone at a reasonable volume?

By the way, I ordered a Line 6 Toneport just 30 seconds before I saw this video, I can't wait to see your next tutorial!

If you're looking for a bedroom practice all tube amp, then go for 5Watter. Even 5Watter is loud for bedroom when crancked let me tell you - and that is NOT a joke. I usually play Marshall bellow-to-3 in my room. But at that volume this amp does not have a good sound. Good sound comes from 5-8, but that is way too loud for home. Be aware that 50W all tube amp is even worse, because you must really crank it to get a good sound out of tubes.

ALso as I mentioned lot of times before, the difference it Watts is not the same as the difference in loudness. So 50W is NOT twice as loud from 25W. 50W is maybe twice as loud from 15W. So if you have 50W amp on the level 5 it will sound roughly the same as a 15W crancked. THat's pretty loud for room too, so a 5W fully crancked would be pretty good option for a room practice, and you'll get that full rich tube sound.

I DL-aded for these tutorials a 30day trial version of a superb spectrum analyzer called "Acoustic Analyzing System 5E". Try it if you want, it requers some tweaking and it does not maybe produce the results that you may exactly need, but experimenting is sure fun with it. CHeers

Hey GMC'ers today we check out my Marshall AVT 50X Combo guitar amp. It is a good workhorse amp that is serving me well in most playing situations. Here I try to give you some info and guiding on how I use my amp to create sounds that I need. So I hope you will find some of the things from the tutorial useful.

I purchased this amp new for ~400e. For the price it is excellent work amp, and with its (relatively) small weight (~20kg), it can be carried by one person using only one hand on gigs etc. This is very important to me as we gig often, and I would hate to carry around half stack or anything. I must stop here and write that I would really want a half stack tube amp, but currently this is the best thing I've got and I get the maximum out of it. Also even if I had a half stack tube amp I would still carry this one to gigs because it is light and relatively loud enough.

Besides this amp, the ideal solution for me would be to get a 50W JCM800 tube head or even JCM800 50W combo with side handles to carry around, and those are in my next purchase plans definitely.

Getting the maximum out of your gear is essential when you are a player, specially on electric guitar where there is lot of things involved between the sound and the fingers. Of course - hands are what counts the most, but not knowing your own gear can lead to some unpleasant situations. I've been there so I know!

If you wanna know some in-depth info on this amp check out my REVIEW of it on the GMC forum. There you can find all the things you wanna know about it and cannot find it in this tutorial. So have fun! :)